dictatorship of the bourgeoisie

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dictatorship of the bourgeoisie

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Calque of German Diktatur der Bourgeoisie, which is attested earliest in Karl Marx's series The Class Struggles in France, 1848–1850 [1850].

noun dictatorships of the bourgeoisie · DOTB · DotB

  1. Marxism, countable, uncountable A socio-political power wherein the bourgeoisie collectively holds the most influence over politics and the masses, as opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat. But Cavaignac was not the dictatorship of the sabre over bourgeois society; he was the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by the sabre.

    Similar: dictatorship of capital · Opposite: dictatorship of the proletariat

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noun a socio-political power

中文資產階級專政 /资产阶级专政 zīchǎn jiējí zhuānzhèng
Françaisdictature de la bourgeoisie
Ελληνικάδικτατορία της αστικής τάξης diktatoría tis astikís táxis
Русскийдиктату́ра буржуази́и diktatúra buržuazíi
Tiếng Việtchuyên chính tư sản

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@misc{dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie_2026,
  title = {dictatorship of the bourgeoisie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dictatorship%20of%20the%20bourgeoisie},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}